How common is the surname Vanmeter?

8,305 people in the United States had the surname Vanmeter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,176 Americans. It ranked 4,281st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Vanmeter?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Vanmeter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Vanmeter getting more or less common?

More common. 7,981 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,305 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Vanmeter

A Dutch surname, carried by 8,305 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanmeter is more common than 97.4% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from Dutch van Meter.

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,305 people named Vanmeter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,176 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,981.

#4,281

rank among US surnames

8,305

people in 2010

2.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #4,109)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,272	Abdullah	8,314	37,136
#4,273	Orosco	8,313	37,140
#4,274	Fuqua	8,312	37,145
#4,276	Heinz	8,311	37,149
#4,278	Griffis	8,309	37,158
#4,279	Battaglia	8,308	37,162
#4,280	Ballinger	8,306	37,171

Who is named Vanmeter

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Vanmeter identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vanmeter

Vanmeter has the Soundex code V536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V536.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Vanmeter come from?: Borrowed from Dutch van Meter.
How common is the surname Vanmeter?: 8,305 people in the United States had the surname Vanmeter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,176 Americans. It ranked 4,281st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vanmeter?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Vanmeter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Vanmeter getting more or less common?: More common. 7,981 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,305 in 2010, up 4.1%.